FILE--Willard Boyle, co-winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics along with George Smith and Charles Kao, conducts interviews at his home in Halifax on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009. Former colleagues of a Canadian engineer who was recently awarded the Nobel Prize for physics say the Swedish Academy of Sciences has dropped the ball. Earlier this month, the academy cited Willard Boyle and his American colleague George Smith for work that revolutionized digital photography. But two of their colleagues at Bell Labs in New Jersey - Eugene Gordon and Mike Tompsett - say the citation is wrong. “They wouldn't know an imaging device if it stared them in the face,” Gordon says. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan